Let the aircraft noise roar

acker says:

05:26am | 18/03/10

Put a massive Airport on the Hay Plains to take all airfreight arriving into South East Australia. All the highways are already there. Then the only aircraft going into the cities will be carrying passengers.

Russell says:

06:23am | 18/03/10

Paul, your local newspaper (also mine) is always on the lookout for a whinge to put on their front page, just about the only thing it knows how to do is moan. Fortunately, its inner west audience contains some of the most miserable people in the country (a genuine 2006 survey DID find that!). The proof there is the very high for the Greens.

Now that they have killed off Metro, our local media is looking for another issue to whack Labor with. Aircraft noise is an old stand-by, it can be trotted out any time for a beat-up front page.

Adam Diver says:

07:04am | 18/03/10

In Sydney the second airport would of affected a very small number of people particularly compared to the airport in the east. With the second airport infrastructure, jobs, businesses would of all had major investment. But typically the good of a few outweigh the needs of the many. I guess its more important how loud you whinge moreso than the reason itself

Macca says:

07:46am | 18/03/10

“Some people complain about that noise. My response is: Yoink.”

Gold! Welcome to Thursday Punchers.

Robert says:

07:43am | 18/03/10

Well put Paul! In most of these petty whingers’ cases, the airport was there before they bought a house under a flight path.

I was furious to see that community paper last night. The A380 is one of the world’s quietest aircraft - both for passengers and when it flies overhead. To illustrate a story about aircraft noise bores with a picture of an aircraft designed to minimise its impact on the environment shows how shallow the paper’s news reporting standards are.

Michael says:

08:26am | 18/03/10

The A380 is a larger and quieter aircraft.  Carrying more passengers than other aircraft means that fewer of these quieter A380 flights are required to transport the same number pf passengers.

The Australian Government’s Airservices Australia has released a report on the noise performance of the A380 and found that it can be up to 6.7 decibels quieter than a 747.  The report says that a “three decibel reduction is regarded as a halving of an aircraft’s noise energy.”

Russell says:

08:30am | 18/03/10

One of the leading lights of the original No Aircraft Noise party of the 80s and 90s (he stood for parliament) went on to form the most successful Nimby group ever – The Friends of Callan Park. Presently, that is an abandoned, overgrown, crumbling ruin (but a very nice, quiet peaceful spot for the locals), and also a festering political boil awaiting great injections of tax payers’ money (the ones from Blacktown and Bourke, not Balmain!).

It was a brilliant campaign and it got rid of all the low income people, the boarding house dwellers and the mentally ill and replaced them all with a much better class of people. That’s the inner west NImby’s vision for Marrickville too.

As for somewhere to disembark for a cheap holiday in the third world… well, they’ll solve that problem later, as long as its a long way away. Flying back in? Parachute.

Andrew says:

10:29am | 18/03/10

In the majority of cases, the airport was there first. So unless you moved into your house in the 1920’s, and haven’t moved out since, you have moved into an area where there is an airport, it’s not like you woke up one morning and all of a sudden over night a large international airport sprung up.

acker says:

10:43am | 18/03/10

Would Peter Garrett’s insulation reduce the noise the jet’s make ?  He is the member for “Kingsford Smith” so he has strong aviation links…nowadays links probably just as strong as the Oil’s classic “Beds Are Burning” has to the Talking Heads classic “Burning Down The House”

Russell says:

11:12am | 18/03/10

I have been waiting for someone to bring up “adequate” public transport and “a very fast train” to an airport hundreds of km away from the nearest Petersham cafe.

Since they haven’t, I’ll pre-empt them. China and Japan do very fast trains and modern Metros, we don’t. Recently, granny Herald railed against “the Asian Model” of urban development that a Metro would produce.

Here in the inner west, we have bicycles.

OH, and soon we may have a tram! Just like granny used to!

stephen says:

11:26am | 18/03/10

The problem for the public is not noise, but airport facilities.
I work at brisbane Airport. There’s 40 places there yer can buy a pie, but after 8.30pm it’ll cost yer 40 bucks by cab to get into the city. (No public transport, see, and that’s after spending 49 bucks to fly from Sydney .)
It’s a shocker, and this Govt, wants to have a word with BAC,(it might want to improve facilities for staff too.) or the public will put a ‘strike’ against both of ‘em.

nick says:

01:03pm | 18/03/10

i live next to Adeliade airport, the noise is never a issue

so sick of people that sit at home all day complaining about stuff like that, in Queensland and NSW they forced racing tracks to be closed because people who moved in after they were built cried about the noise, its such a joke that a tiny group of people have so much power to screw over others hobbys

thats how Australia is tho, it happens with everything, people complain about TV shows (change the channel you dont have to watch it) and video games they dont like (you dont have to play them) and get them banned

Reluctant Commuter says:

09:09am | 19/03/10

I lived next to a train line - it never occurred to me that if I whinged loud enough I could get the trains to stop.

Geoff says:

07:10am | 29/03/10

Sydney-Melbourne is the fourth busiest air route in the world.
Simple plan- progress the high speed train (TGV) between Sydney Melbourne.
Ppoblem solved.